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force? No, Tanimany Hall is still there, as any New York politician will

tell you. The Tammany tiger has not changed its stripes.

There was a time when fearless publications told the truth about

Tammany, but they have either gone out of existence or have fallen under

control of the Jews. There was a time when public bodies like the

Citizens Union organized to oppose Tammany and to keep a volunteer

vigil on its activities; these groups have succumbed to Jewish

contributions and officership and no longer stand guard.

The outcry against Tammany seemed to be hushed the moment that

Tammany patronage fell into the hands of the New York Jews, where it

now remains, the Kehillah being the real political center, and Tammany

but a distributing station a sort of "Gentile front" for the more powerful

Kehillah. The Judaization of Tammany is now complete, for the Irish

element has been overcome by Jewish money.

Tammany was one of the strongest political organizations ever seen

in the Unjted States. Potent not only in municipal and states politics, but

often exercising a decisive influence on national affairs. It was, withcut

exaggeration, unequaled in any country in the world.

If there is one quality that attracts Jews, it is power.

Wherever the seat of power· may be, thither they swarm

obsequiously. As Tammany was power and the gate of power, it was

natural that the Jews of the biggest Jewish city in the world should court

it. Doubtless they were also affected by the incongruity of the fact that

in the biggest Jewish city, the most solid political power was non-Jewish.

When the German Jewish banker Schoenberg went to represent the

interests of the Rothschilds, his keen eye at once took in ·the situation. He

became a member and supporter of Tammany. It was good business for

this Jewish banker, because the funds of the Rothschilds were heavily

invested in New York transport. The properties of city tractions are, as

in all American cities, at the mercy of the local Tammany power, by

whatever name it may be known. Belmont eventually attained the

coveted eminence of Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society. Belmont-

Schoenberg opened the way for the rest of the Jews; the Freedman's,

Untermeyer's, Straus's; financiers, lawyers, politicians, business men and

union sharks. There soon followed the wholesale appointment of Jews

to the judiciary of New York until New York became a political and legal

Jewish preserve; and onwards to the Supreme Court where Jewish

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influence never looked back since the no_w distant day of the Jewish

capture of Tammany Hall.

It wa5 necessary for a Jewr}r that planned to control the judiciary, as

well as to provide spetial protection for certain Jewish enterprises that are

near enough to the borderline of the law to rherit question, it was

necessary to obtain control of the supreme political engine through which

favors are disbursed in local politics. The peculiar system of local, state. .

and national government in tlie United States imide it easy for the control

of such organizations to be gained by money.

The Jew's natural political home seems ·to be in the Republican

Party, for thither he returns after ventUre elsewhere; but his predilection

for .the Republican Party does not move the Jew to make the mistake of

being exclusively the partisan of one group.' It is better, he knows, to

control all groups. Strortg as Jewry became in Tammany, it was even

stronger in the ranks of the Republican Party, while New York socialism

was, and is, completely headed and manned by Jews. This renders it

extremely eaSy for 'the Jews to swing stipportill whichever direCtion they

choose, and for Kehillah to fulfill any threat it may make. It also insures

that any Jewish Candidate on any ticket will be ·elected. . '

Because of the ·powerf,ul Irish control ofTammany at the begirining,

the Jews worked cautiously. The Kehillah adopted the ancient policy, not

of putting forward their own people, but non-Jews who could be useful

to Judah. The difference between pro-Jewish politicians who are not

themselves Jews, and politicians of the Jewish race, is that the former can. .

sometimes go further than the Jew in office can, without detection. Thus,

in the' early days of Tammany, indeed u:ntil just before World War I,

there was always a "Gentile front" in Tammany offices basking in the

glory of Tammany publicity, but always in the background there was his

"Jewish control." This is the formula for citizens who wish to khow the .

meaning of things otherWise unexplained,- "look for the Jewish

control." To this end, therefore the Jews have been strong in all parties,

so that whichever waythe election went, the -Jews would win. In.New

York it is always the Jewish party that wins. Whoever wins New York

rules the Government.

As always election campaigns are staged as an entertairiment, a

diversion for the people, they are permitted to think and act as if they are

really making their own government, but it is always the Jews that win